Homeschooled Teen Wins Top Science Honor

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[anymouse]

Smart kid.

[BibChr]

Ah! yet another brave child overcomes the crippling disadvantages of being educated by non-credentialed non-professionals!

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Dan
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[Gordongekko909]

The California public school system has failed to dumb him down! Increase teacher pay immediately!

[kanecorp]

I thought all home schooled kids were insane and ill-informed though. /sar

[BadAndy]

I expect the public school kids will duct tape him to a bench.

[MineralMan]

"Viscardi said he’s been homeschooled since fifth grade, although he does take math classes at the University of California at San Diego three days a week. His father is a software engineer and his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, he said."

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Not bad teachers, it looks like, at his homeschool. Good on the lad!

[CharlesWayneCT]

OK, but you do have to admit his home situation is a bit on the "abnormal" side.

I strongly support home-schooling, but knowing many home-schoolers, there are some where the kids should be teaching the parents.

Of course, the parents are getting a lot smarter going through the curriculum, and it's great to see a family learning together.

[dhs12345]

Sounds like his parents are brainiacs too.

[Spok]

"his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience"

The heroes in this story are the parents, who obviously have their priorities straight.

[TheDon]

Mike's going to have his pick of schools to attend.

[dawn53]

Years ago when we were considering homeschooling, I read a book by the Colfaxes called Homeschooling for Excellence.

Their kids were homeschooled and had all gone on to major universities on scholarship. The parents were both professors (if I remember right) and I thought to myself as I started to read the book that it was probably just a "genetic" thing as the explanation of the kids success.

As I read the book, I found out that two of their boys were adopted... so had to throw the "genetics" explanation out the window.

[wallcrawlr]

ping

[TheBigB]

Poor kid, not getting the proper "socialization" that a public skool could provide. Someone needs to beat him up, steal his lunch money, and throw him a condom. That'll fix it! :)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Could have solved it in my sleep.

[dhs12345]

Probably a little of both: nature and nurture.

And probably no mind numbing things like TV, video games, etc.

[VanDeKoik]

Congrats to this kid. It's always good to see American kids, no matter where and how they are taught, do well in their studies.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Gawd, I passed Calc 3 and Diff. EQ, but i would ber lost trying that now!

[OSHA]

Dirichlet Problem The problem of finding the connection between a continuous function on the boundary of a region with a harmonic function taking on the value on . In general, the problem asks if such a solution exists and, if so, if it is unique. The Dirichlet problem is extremely important in mathematical physics (Courant and Hilbert 1989, pp. 179-180 and 240; Logan 1997; Krantz 1999b). If is a continuous function on the boundary of the open unit disk , then define (1) where is the boundary of . Then is continuous on the closed unit disk and harmonic on (Krantz 1999a, p. 93).

So what's the big deal?

[Bigoleelephant]

And all one of the judges could come up with was

“He is a super-duper mathematics student,” said lead judge Constance Atwell, a consultant and former research director at the National Institutes of Health.

Now that's education!

[brownsfan]

The answer is 42!